Blaise Pascal Quotes

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• In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man…
• If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable…
• All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
• Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.
• Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
• It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.
• For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and…
• Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
• I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
• To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
• Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.
• Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame…
• If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not…
• Things are always at their best in their beginning.
• All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.
• We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
• The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand…
• What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
• We like to be deceived.
• Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

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